movies

[InvincibleCakeEater]

Watched American History X for the first time in forever last night (I'm seeing a girl that was in it, but that should be another topic)...

You're dating Edward Furlong?

I wish

[Cronos]

At the recommendation of a friend, downloaded and saw for the first time the film "Swingers".

Very well made and well written movie. Thoroughly depressing, but very well made and acted.

[Richie Allen]

Watched another Van Heflin western, this one much different than Shane. It was the Spaghetti Western "The Ruthless Four." Based on a story very similar to Treasure of the Sierra Madre, the film stars Van Heflin, George Hilton, Gilbert Roland and Klaus Kinski. Heflin is still great in one of his final film roles but Kinski is the highlight here. Very cool and menacing at the same time. I recommend this one. **** out of *****

[Maclowery]

At the recommendation of a friend, downloaded and saw for the first time the film "Swingers".

Very well made and well written movie. Thoroughly depressing, but very well made and acted.

Glad to hear someone else say how depressing that movie was. I know too many people who claim that it's one of the best comedies from the 90s, and how it helped shape adult comedy, blah blah blah. I guess it was Vaughn's breakout role (since he's played the same character in every movie he's been in since then). I just can't stand that movie. The Favreau repeat-voicemail scene is played perfectly - I respect that - in that it's more unwatchable for me than some of the worst gorefests or suicide scenes I can imagine.

I basically hate the types of dudes portrayed in the movie. They are accurate portrayals of real people. Dudes really do act like that. And, those dudes suck.

[JL21]

/puts on film snob hat, which is a bicorn today

Napoleon was absolutely amazing, incredible, astounding... I can't really find enough superlatives for it. The final 40 minutes or so were almost exclusively in triptych. And there were some other experimental (at the time) uses of the camera- handheld camera shots, cameras on the ceiling swooping down on the actors during the French Revolution to accentuate the pandemonium, lots of overlapping imagery, etc. Gance's use of nature to set tone in various scenes was spectacular, Kurosawa-esque (even though it obviously predated Kurosawa by over a decade).

/takes off bicorn film snob hat

Also, it had boobs!

[TGantz]

/puts on film snob hat, which is a bicorn today

Napoleon was absolutely amazing, incredible, astounding... I can't really find enough superlatives for it. The final 40 minutes or so were almost exclusively in triptych. And there were some other experimental (at the time) uses of the camera- handheld camera shots, cameras on the ceiling swooping down on the actors during the French Revolution to accentuate the pandemonium, lots of overlapping imagery, etc. Gance's use of nature to set tone in various scenes was spectacular, Kurosawa-esque (even though it obviously predated Kurosawa by over a decade).

/takes off bicorn film snob hat

Also, it had boobs!

Blah... Blah... Blah... Blah... BOOBS!

I'm in.

[Radbird]

We watched Transamerica this weekend. I thought it was quite good.

I was thinking something would happen at the end which didn't, so that was a little disappointing

[SHOW]

I thought Bree and Calvin would reconnect.

[TimeForGuinness]

Watched a few in my queue this past weekend:

Following - Very nice Christopher Nolan short movie, had a Usual Suspects feel to it. (7/10)
Krull - Childhood favorite, gotta love the Cyclops (6/10)
Gojira - Oh yes, the first Godzilla movie with the awesome Oxygen Destroyer weapon. Doesn't get any better. (10/10)

[thrill]

The American sounds good: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbc ... /100839999

[cpebbles]

Krull - Childhood favorite, gotta love the Cyclops (6/10)

I just watched this for the first time since it was playing on HBO and the like back in the 80s. The Cyclops absolutely annoyed the hell out of me, and it certainly appears that the prince and princess are ruling a kingdom of 5 people at the end of the movie, because literally everyone else in the movie has died by that point.